The Professional Mental Health Bill went up
U.S. Rep. Max Rose (South Democrat of Brooklyn-Staten Island) joined other members of Congress to introduce dr. Lorna Breen’s Health Care Provider Protection Act, a bipartisan law that aims to reduce and prevent suicide, exhaustion, and intellectual and behavioral fitness. disorders among fitness professionals. “Health professionals on the front line of the coronavirus pandemic have gone to hell with us, and the trauma they have suffered is genuine and cannot be ignored,” Rose said. Dr. Lorna Breen, a phd doctor at Columbia University’s Vagelos College of Physician, surgeons who worked with victims of the pandemic, committed suicide in Virginia.
Nearly $60 million in renewable energy contracts signed in Brooklyn
For the maximum pandemic, only four or five contracts were signed in Brooklyn for $2 million or more. But in the third week of August, there were 15, like last week. The houses were asking for a total of $58.5 million. The most expensive transaction concerned an eight-room townhouse at 52 Remsen St. in Brooklyn Heights. The award of the moment for a condominium, also in Brooklyn Heights, at 90 Furman St., according to The Real Deal.
Underground has secret parties
A clandestine club in Brooklyn has hosted secret dance parties with no precautions against coronaviruses. The place, on Evergreen Avenue in Bushwick, has hosted several raves in recent weeks. Zachary Shepis, one of the club’s co-founders, known as Illmore, announced in June that he had designed the area taking into account precautions against the pandemic. “While our concerts are limited until COVID restrictions change, in the meantime, we will provide an area for testing and broadcast equipment,” he wrote in June. However, Shepis’ Instagram post on Sunday showed revelers huddled in the small area with less than 6 feet mandatory among them, according to the New York Post.
Feeling shipwrecked in downtown Brooklyn
The rear wheels of a fully loaded 80,000-pound cement truck fell through a steel plate on a street in downtown Brooklyn, FDNY officials said. The truck, owned by US Concrete, is heading south on Livingston Street around 1 p.m. On August 24, when he hit a steel plate on Broad Street Road, protecting a ditch that had been dug to install sewer pipes. Police said the right rear wheels of the truck had slipped into the ditch. Two heavy cranes were needed to tow the truck, according to amNewYork.
Elderly with homeless dementia
NYPD has released a missing persons report of an 89-year-old man who was last seen at his home in Bushwick. Israel Perez suffers from dementia and uses a walking cane. The last time he noticed the inside of his house was around 11am on Saturday, police said. Pérez is Hispanic, approximately 1.80 meters tall and weighs 215 pounds with brown eyes and gray hair. He last noticed him dressed in a white shirt, gray trousers and white sneakers, according to NBC New York.
Nets pledges $50 million to black community economy
The Brooklyn Nets, led by homeowners Joe and Clara Wu Tsai, are promising $50 million over 10 years to expand a five-point plan to help Brooklyn’s black community. The plan will address wage gaps in communities of color and diversity within the NBA’s main office. “I sought to explain our ideals about this factor, that racism is ubiquitous and will have to be fought, and I sought to establish the basic principles that clarified our purpose as an organization,” Tsai said. This is part of an effort through a team of 30 homeowners who will jointly make a $30 million a year contribution to a base that will “improve access and for men and women of college, college and professional loans,” according to CNBC.
Representations reveal a 10-story construction on Bedford Avenue
Architectural representations through The J Associates reveal a 10-story structure under structure at 1four99 Bedford Ave., near the border between Crown Heights and Prospect Heights. The structure will come with 98 rental games and will also have a closed parking lot for four9 vehicles. The exterior will consist of several sections alternating red brick and soft beige. Some apartments have terraces. The property, on the corner of Bedford Avenue and St. Johns Place, is two blocks from Franklin Avenue 2, 3, four and five trains, according to New York YIMBY.
Deutsch announces funding for clean streets
Councilman Chaim Deutsch (D-Sheepshead Bay-Manhattan Beach-Brighton Beach-Homecrest) has announced an investment for a $160,000 initiative that will make certain streets cleaner in its City Hall district. “I have worked diligently to address the lack of for District 48, and this includes fighting for those additional budgets for advanced sanitation. Array I will not allow our district to fall into bad shape or anarchy,” he said.
Cornegy denounces the sale of tax privileges
Yesterday, Councillor Robert E. Cornegy (D-Bedford-Stuyvesant-Northern Crown Heights) spoke on a back-to-school occasion against an upcoming tax levy sale scheduled for September 4. Cornegy joined his colleagues in a letter to the mayor urging the postponement of the sale of the 2020 tax privileges, and supports the law Monday through state Sen. Leroy Comrie and the assembly David Weprin to that effect.
Three-story construction planned for Bushwick
Permits have been filed for a three-story construction at 1265 Myrtle Ave. Bushwick. The site, lately a vacant lot, is between Evergreen Avenue and Hart Street and is within walking distance of The Central Avenue Metro Station of Exercise M and the Myrtle Avenue-Broadway Metro Station of Exercises J, M and Z. Construction is expected to have two apartments, probably rents, and 1,380 square feet of advertising area as well as a backyard. It is developed through Jaime Jiminez and designed through the architect P. Georgeopoulos, according to New York YIMBY.
Brooklyn Tech graduate wins Milken Scholarship
Ayan Rahman, a Brooklyn Tech High School graduate and the son of Bandgladeshi immigrants living in Kensington, discovered last month that he is one of five New York Fellows to win the prestigious Milken Scholarship. The scholarship connects winners with a network of professionals from other fields who integrate network service into their work. As a student at Brooklyn Tech, Rahman was very concerned about the school’s Key Club, a student-led network services organization that focuses on intellectual fitness awareness, environmental protection, diversity and early learning, according to BK Reader. Recalling his years as one of the few Bangladeshi or Pakistani academics in college, he said, “I felt a lot of desire to replace the code and create an identity that is not me.”
A engaged couple on the Gowanus channel
A couple of Gowanus gave the himself to a canoe in the Gowanus Canal on Saturday afternoon. Jamison Pence proposed to her friend over 3 years old, Emma Borochoff, while canoeing along the canal near the Carroll Street Bridge on August 22. Pence said they had been living in Gowanus for two years and were passing the canal. Every day. The couple, who work in sales and marketing, moved into the community two years ago from Greenpoint. “I felt that doing it on the Carroll Street Bridge would have been too easy, so I sought to take on a little challenge,” Pence told the Brooklyn Paper.
East River State Park renowned for LGBT activist
East River State Park, a seven-acre waterfront green area in Williamsburg, was officially renamed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo in honor of Marsha P. Johnson, a pioneering LGBT activist, drag artist and style known as the “mayor of Christopher Street.” Johnson is best known for her role in the Stonewall Uprising in 1969 and as a founding member of the Gay Liberation Front. Johnson knew himself as a homosexual guy and a drag artist throughout his life, but more recently he has been described as a transgender woguy. He was also an ACT Up activist and co-founder of Street Travestite Action Revolutionaries, according to the architect’s newspaper.
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